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Do you use the bang system in DDG? I think that more than makes up the difference.
by JBReefer 9y ago
Do you use the bang system in DDG? I think that more than makes up the difference.
- Sargos 9y agoIf you have to remember to use arbitrary bangs to get specific results then DDG has already failed as a search engine. Coding a query yourself is obviously the most powerful way to search documents, but the key to useful software is to do the hard work for you.
- stephenr 9y agoBangs dont 'get specific results' - they're shortcuts to let you do site-specific 'searches', on that site. So, if I want to check the versions of haproxy in the various Debian suites, then `!dpkg haproxy` would take me to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=haproxy https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=haproxy. If I just want general results about HAproxy, that isn't what a bang is for.
- 27182818284 9y agoI do, but doing !g or !fl seems to defeat the purpose.